December 2024 UWFaith ECD Book Club
Wed, Dec 11
|Virtual Event on Zoom
This month's books are "The 1619 Project: Born on the Water" by Nikole Hannah-Jones and Renee Watson (Education for Mission) and "Saving American Beach" by Heidi Tyline King (Social Action)
Time & Location
Dec 11, 2024, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Virtual Event on Zoom
Guests
About the Event
The 1619 Project: Born On the Water
The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Renée Watson.
A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations. Grandma gathers the whole family, and the student learns that 400 years ago, in 1619, their ancestors were stolen and brought to America by white slave traders.
But before that, they had a home, a land, a language. She learns how the people said to be born on the water survived.
And the people planted dreams and hope,
willed themselves to keep